![]() ![]() His passionate engagement will infect you. Hoare has wonderful, almost child-like relish for colourful stories and incredible facts. 'As bracing as a great blustery lungful of ozone-filled air. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, `The Sea Inside’ takes us on an astounding journey of discovery. Along the way we meet an amazing cast from scientists to tattooed warriors from ravens to whales and bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now. From there he travels to the other side of the world – the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand – in search of encounters with animals and people. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. In `The Sea Inside’, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. ![]() ![]() It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for `Leviathan’. ![]()
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